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The Genetic Map Of The Jewish Diasporas Defined By New Genetic Study
Aug 07, 2012
A new genetic analysis focusing on Jews from North Africa has provided an overall genetic map of the Jewish Diasporas. The findings support the historical record of Middle Eastern Jews settling in North Africa during Classical Antiquity, proselytizing and marrying local populations, and, in the process, forming distinct populations that stayed largely intact for more than 2,000 years... Read More
More Accurate Drug Testing In Heterogeneous ER+ Breast Cancer Models
Aug 07, 2012
Cell cultures are homogeneous. Human tumors are not. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment reports the development of human-derived estrogen-positive (ER+) breast cancer models that retain their heterogeneity, allowing researchers to more accurately test drugs for this disease... Read More
More Accurate Drug Testing In Heterogeneous ER+ Breast Cancer Models
Aug 07, 2012
Cell cultures are homogeneous. Human tumors are not. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment reports the development of human-derived estrogen-positive (ER+) breast cancer models that retain their heterogeneity, allowing researchers to more accurately test drugs for this disease... Read More
Development Of Better Cancer Therapies Likely Following Discovery Of New Mechanism Behind Resistance To Treatment
Aug 07, 2012
Developing resistance to chemotherapy is a nearly universal, ultimately lethal consequence for cancer patients with solid tumors - such as those of the breast, prostate, lung and colon - that have metastasized, or spread, throughout the body... Read More
Next Generation Sequencing Approach Provides Fast, Accurate, Low Cost Analysis Of BRCA Gene Mutations In Breast Cancer
Aug 07, 2012
Individuals with mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have a significantly higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers. Families at risk have been seeking genetic testing and counseling based on their mutation carrier status, but the standard method of direct sequencing is labor-intensive, costly, and it only targets a part of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes... Read More
Next Generation Sequencing Approach Provides Fast, Accurate, Low Cost Analysis Of BRCA Gene Mutations In Breast Cancer
Aug 07, 2012
Individuals with mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have a significantly higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers. Families at risk have been seeking genetic testing and counseling based on their mutation carrier status, but the standard method of direct sequencing is labor-intensive, costly, and it only targets a part of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes... Read More
Chemotherapy Can Inadvertently Encourage Cancer Growth
Aug 07, 2012
A new study from the US finds that in the process of targeting and killing off cancer cells, chemotherapy may also spur healthy cells in the neighbourhood to release a compound that stimulates cancer growth, eventually leading to treatment resistance. They hope their finding will lead to better therapies for cancer and buy precious time for patients with advanced cancer... Read More
A Link Between Stem Cell Regulation And Cancer
Aug 07, 2012
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the University of Manchester, and the MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a new role for an oncogenic signaling pathway in embryonic stem cell (ESC) self-renewal and in reprogramming adult cells into an ESC-state, which will aid in the development of future cancer therapies... Read More
Health Hazards Of Chemical Compounds In The Work Area: MAK Value Lowered For Chlorinated Biphenyls
Aug 07, 2012
Chlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a group of substances for which the 2012 List of MAK and BAT Values submitted by the Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) specifies new, and in this case, significantly lower values than previously recommended... Read More
Inflammatory Pathways Key To Understanding Link Between Depressive Symptoms And Cancer Survival
Aug 07, 2012
Research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that symptoms of depression in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic kidney cancer are associated with survival and inflammatory gene regulation may explain this link... Read More
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